Life    by Les Broad
Price: $1.99 USD. 35390 words. Published on September 20, 2011. .
Rudeness, bad service, incompetence – do we have to tolerate such things from businesses who rely on us for their income? The author doesn't think so, and complains about it all. In writing. He kept the correspondence too, and a lot of it is reproduced here. Much of it is really quite funny but the occasional frustration of dealing with big, faceless, corporate entities is all too obvious!

Payola Bribery In The Record Business And Television    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $3.50 USD. 4290 words. Published on April 4, 2013. .
Payola, or paying disc jockeys and other radio and television employees to play particular songs, was the subject of Congressional hearings in 1959 and 1960. Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, was summoned to testify before a House subcommittee of investigators. At issue was censorship, the suspension of radio and television station licenses, etc. The lessons of payola are pertinent today.